埃

Translingual

Han character

埃 (radical 32 土+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 土戈人大 (GIOK), four-corner 4313₄, composition ⿰土矣)

1. fine dust, dirt
2. the number 10^-10

References

• KangXi: page 229, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5107
• Dae Jaweon: page 465, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 447, character 15
• Unihan data for U+57C3

See also

• Chinese Numeral 埃
  • Next: 渺
  • Last: 塵

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		埃

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): āi (ai¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄞ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): aai¹, oi¹
• Min Nan (POJ): ia

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: āi
    • Zhuyin: ㄞ
    • Wade-Giles: ai¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ai
    • IPA ^(key): /ˀaɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: aai¹, oi¹
    • Yale: āai, ōi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: aai¹, oi¹
    • IPA ^(key): /ɑːi̯⁵⁵/, /ɔːi̯⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ia
    • Tâi-lô: ia
    • IPA (Taipei): /ia⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ia³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (埃, reconstructed)
Character (埃), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 影 (34) Final: 咍 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 烏開切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʔʌi/	/ʔɑ̆i/	/ʔᴀi/	/ʔəi/	/ʔəj/	/ɒi/	/ʔɒi/

Old Chinese pronunciation (埃, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
埃								āi								‹ ʔoj ›								/*qˤə/								dust
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
埃					14933					矣					之					0					哀					/*qlɯː/

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Japanese

Kanji

埃

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• On: あい (ai)
• Kun: ちり (chiri), ほこり (hokori)

Noun

埃 (hiragana あい, romaji ai)

1. one billionth

埃 (hiragana ほこり, romaji hokori)

1. dust

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Korean

Hanja

埃 (ae) (hangeul 애, revised ae, McCune-Reischauer ae)

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Vietnamese

Han character

埃 (ai)

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